The promotion became effective on July 1, 2015. It should have begun on July 1, 2014, but the UPR didn’t have the budget available to give the salary raise that comes with the promotion. For the past 5+ years all promotions have been on a 1 year delay at all campuses of the University of Puerto Rico. Here’s a copy of the letter, granting my promotion and explaining the delay.

I wish to thank all those who have been supportive of my career, too many to name individually. You (you know who you are) have an invitation to taste my Full Professor Ale (a barleywine designed to age nicely), sometime over the next decade or so.

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My article “DHTML Dances: The Making of an E-Poet” is now available online in the most recent issue (co-edited by Monika Górska Olesińska and Anna Nacher) of the Polish peer-reviewed journal Cultural Studies Review. Here’s the abstract:

Canadian poet, programmer, and artist Jim Andrews lived and worked in Seattle 1997–2000, participating in the exuberant economic and technological growth known as the dot-com era. Andrews’ DHTML poems engage the materiality of Web technologies from this moment in computational history and were instrumental in his formation as a poet. This article performs media-specific analyses on Enigma n and Seattle Drift to contextualize and demonstrate Andrews’ evolution into an e-poet.

Here’s a link to the article, which is not open access, unfortunately. Fortunately, it only costs 3,99zł (which is about $1.07 USD) to purchase. You might even want to pay 14,00zł for the whole issue ($3.77 USD!) and get access to the whole collection of scholarly articles on electronic literature. Here are the keywords for the issue.

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This Fall I will teach three courses, all of which inform digital studies in different ways: Cyberpunk Cinema is a film course that engages the digital thematically while developing a critical vocabulary to analyze cinema. Introduction to Poetry will show how the most intense use of language is shaped by embodied, physical, and digital materials. My Digital Humanities Internship will offer 6 students the chance to collaborate in my projects, developing valuable 21st century digital technology skills.

Read the descriptions below for more details.

Cyberpunk Cinema

INGL 3345: Topics in Film Section 036 T, Th 9:00 – 10:20 am
Learn the language of film in a course focused on science fiction post-industrial dystopias, where the lines between human and machine, real and virtual are blurred.

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A little over a week ago, Jim Andrews announced that he had updated the source code for his 1998 DHTML e-poem “Enigma n.” Having recently written an article for the Polish journal Culture Studies Review, and getting a Spanish translation of five I ♥ E-Poetry entries on Jim Andrews’ work in the Mexican Revista 404, I thought it was a good time to translate the poem into Spanish. How hard could it be to translate a 10-word poem?